Authorities often quickly find missing local people

4:16 AM,
May 8, 2013

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| By Valerie Boateng
Staff Writer

Local authorities deal with their share of calls about runaways or missing children each year, with most cases ending in a speedy find.

"The vast majority of it (in Coshocton County) is runaways or missing children who have not returned home in a timely fashion," said Lt. Dean Hettinger, of the Coshocton County Sheriff's Office.

Three women who vanished separately about a decade ago were rescued from a rundown house Monday in a poor neighborhood in Cleveland. Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight had apparently been held captive in the house since their teens or early 20s. ...